Challis Hodge’s UXblog

If I could call any one person my UX mentor or hero it would have to be Don Norman. When I read his first book, The Psychology of Everyday Things (later renamed The Design of Everyday Things), I rejoiced in the discovery that others saw the world in the same way I did. Needless to say I enjoyed Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, The Invisible Computer, and his more recent Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things.

Below are a few more UX related books I’ve found useful over the years…

User Experience

Experience Design, Nathan Shedroff
The Elements of User Experience, Jesse James Garrett

HCI & Interaction Design

About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Alan Cooper
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (2nd Edition), Alan Cooper
Bringing Design to Software, Terry Winograd
Information Appliances and Beyond, Eric Bergman
Designing Visual Interfaces, Kevin Mullet, et al
User and Task Analysis for Interface Design, JoAnn Hackos, et al
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, Ben Shneiderman
HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks: Toward a Multidisciplinary Science, John M. Carroll

Information Architecture

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (2nd Edition), Lou Rosenfeld & Peter Morville
Information Architecture, an Emerging 21st Century Profession, Earl Morrogh
Information Architecture, Blueprints for the Web, Christina Wodtke
Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication, Ronald E Rice, Maureen McCreadie, Shan-Ju L. Chang
Information Anxiety 2, Richard Saul Wurman, et al
A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander
The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information, Bernardo A. Huberman

Content Strategy

Content Management Bible, Bob Boiko
Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy, Ann Rockley

Information Graphics & Visual Design

A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander
Visual Thinking, Rudolph Arnheim
Notes on Graphic Design and Visual Communication, G. Berryman
Comics & Sequential Art, W. Eisner
Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols, R. Dreyfuss
Signs and Symbols: Their Design and Meaning, A. Frutiger
Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Reference, Robert L. Harris
Designing and Writing Online Documentation, William K. Horton
Information Design, Robert Jacobson
Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators, Charles Kostelnick & David D. Roberts
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design, G. Kress
Dictionary of Symbols, C. Liungman
Web Style Guide, Patrick J. Lynch & Sarah Horton
Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud
Visual Function : An Introduction to Information Design, P. Mijksenaar
Pictogram Design: Popular Edition, Y. Ota
The MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication, Paradis, James G., & Muriel L. Zimmerman
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte
Envisioning Information, Edward Tufte
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Edward Tufte
Color for the Electronic Age, J. V. White
Information Graphics: A Survey of Typographic, Diagrammatic and Cartographic Communication, P. Wildbur

Research

Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory, Anselm L. Strauss, et al
Qualitative Methods for Marketplace Research, Shay Sayre
Tales of the Field on Writing Ethnography, John Van Maanen
Visual Anthropology: Photography As a Research Method, John, Jr. Collier, et al

Usability

Contextual Design, Karen Holtzblatt, et al
Design by People for People: Essays on Usability, Russell J. Branaghan
Designing Web Usability, Jakob Nielsen
Don’t Make Me Think, Steve Krug
The Humane Interface, Jef Raskin
Usability Engineering, Jakob Nielson
The Usability Engineering Lifecycle, Deborah J. Mayhew
Cost-Justifying Usability, Second Edition: An Update for the Internet Age, Second Edition, Randolph G. Bias & Deborah J. Mayhew
A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, Joseph S. Dumas & Janice C. Redish

Miscellany

Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore
The Eternal E-Customer, Bryan Bergeron
The Experience Economy, B. Joseph Pine II, et al
Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher & William Ury
The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen
Management of the Absurd, Richard Farson
Beyond our Control? Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace, Stuart Biegel
The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley
A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
The Forgotten Arts and Crafts, John Seymour
Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck
Fire in the Valley, Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine
Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate
Experiential Marketing, Bernd Schmitt

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